DS part 3

In the evening I tried charging/running the darned thing with a friend's DS charger to no avail, both DSTT cards worked fine in his DS and I gave him my surplus.

From reading this I am quite sure my F1 fuse is dead. I wanted to go downtown to give it up for repairs, but I only just got up and feel pretty sick, so that will have to wait until tomorrow or so. I really don't want to do this on my own, SMD soldering is a horror to which I am not yet used, I am pretty bad at soldering in any case, so I think I'd fry my DS before and after repairing it.

I wonder what the costs of repair will be, bu I guess around 30€, as it's really not that big of a problem and official Nintendo repairs are 55€, any store should be below that.

Now there is one thing I am wondering: Would it really have been so much more difficult to use thermistors instead of fuses? I know they are bigger and a lot more expensive, but at least the console could recover on its own from power issues. Guess it isn't worth it from Nintendo's POV as most failure modes will be related to displays anyway. And they get to earn some extra cash for repairing consoles outside of warranty, where power issues should only then start to manifest.

Well, I'm trying of charging the battery independently from the device at the moment. It would only be a temporary fix, but at least I'd be able to play Zelda...